Details
- Dimensions
- 6.3ʺW × 3.94ʺD × 6.3ʺH
- Period
- 1930s
- Country of Origin
- Austria
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Brass
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gold
- Condition Notes
- Excellent — This vintage piece is in near original condition. It may show minimal traces of use and/or have slight … moreExcellent — This vintage piece is in near original condition. It may show minimal traces of use and/or have slight restorations. less
- Description
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Pair of bookends featuring woman’s head, franz hagenauer, werkstatte hagenauer vienna, ca. 1930, brass polished, marked franz hagenauer first designed …
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Pair of bookends featuring woman’s head, franz hagenauer, werkstatte hagenauer vienna, ca. 1930, brass polished, marked franz hagenauer first designed his radically reduced heads in the late 1920s, inspired by the contemporary avant-garde and futurism. Here as well, the heads chased from brass are reduced to an essential ovoid form. Only the stylized curls on the sides suggest a woman’s head. The almost cartoonishly small mouth is also already featured in early works by franz hagenauer from around 1930. The draft for the bookends is well documented in hagenauer’s sample book with model number 2364. A contemporary photograph also shows a similar mask-like head next to a three-armed candlestick. Both marked with “hagenauer/wien” “whw” in a circle, “made in/austria” bib.: werkstatte hagenauer’s sample book i, mod. No. 2364; comp. Documented photograph of similar head in hagenauer archive at mak, vienna, inv.no. Haf 1113 this piece has an attribution mark,
i am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
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